Memory improvement in aging as a function of exposure to mood-matching music

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Ward, E., Isac, A., Donnelly, M., Van Puyvelde, M. and Franco, F. 2021. Memory improvement in aging as a function of exposure to mood-matching music. Acta Psychologica. 212, pp. 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2020.103206
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TitleMemory improvement in aging as a function of exposure to mood-matching music
AuthorsWard, E., Isac, A., Donnelly, M., Van Puyvelde, M. and Franco, F.
Abstract

This study examined the effect of matching musical emotion and the mood of the listener on working memory and free recall in normal aging. Memory measures were taken at baseline in healthy young and older participants, and, following a happy or sad mood induction, again after exposure to both mood-matching and -mismatching music in a counterbalanced repeated measures design. Compared to baseline, [i] recall was greater following mood-matching than mood-mismatching music in both groups, and was reduced following mood-mismatching music in older adults, [ii] working memory was greater in the mood-matching condition, but did not differ from baseline in the mismatching condition. The results have significant implications for the increasingly popular forms of intervention involving music used with older populations experiencing cognitive decline.

KeywordsAging; Mood; Music; Recall; Working memory
LanguageEnglish
PublisherElsevier
JournalActa Psychologica
ISSN0001-6918
Electronic1873-6297
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Online12 Nov 2020
Print01 Jan 2021
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Deposited23 Oct 2020
Accepted23 Oct 2020
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© 2020 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2020.103206
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